; cyclone zone. They tell me there “I believe you are beginning to PENNSYLVANIA CENSUS FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. FARM NOTES.
are rattlesnakes there, too, and that pick up Some oad, petuid | ANALYZED IN BULLETIN. DAILY THOUGHT —Government scientists are ex-
ers sizzle mw - chair table. ni | — en with oats
ar Tre: os | Min Sat a at. | Cuan ioport. Sm 3S1,350 Popula- | 1.00 is brightest when it dawns trom | oth When! 20 use
———————————————=————=—== minute that his mother had taken er might be in a bondage of spirit, tion, Indicates 954 Per Cent Are fears.—Scott. lof these farm products in the man-
Bellefonte, Pa., October 9, 1951. |;.otic's words seriously. His sis- a bondage more confining than that White. 169 cent ee ufacture of high quality paper
-—— tor's Knowledge of the country he from which he had freed her. Women Work. | ae are lnaty thiilla ior 188 bh
BOY 0’ DREAMS Bad come tO <r ag FS og Rely a | There are ore Shan 9.000000 per, |), Paris couturiers, but one hitag |, By Stiveting. the fa on
— there was mever a day when the back his chair and went to the Sons in Pennsylvania, by the certain is that they will not make co .€ GUE FUNG Weeds start be
Must I leave you in the mountains, ted New E > i rand- door. “It looks as if this fine | CeBSUS. of 2 ure » the mistake of trying to foist crin- killed before they can go to seed
B0Y + Drum mother didn't think of Leotie's weather might break before long. What kind peopl pre hey? olines, bustles or any of the other —
Must I leave you where the fountains | Anybody want to go?" How many of them were Boer: | sartorial atrocities of the Victorian Lime put on the soil in the {ul
Toss the silver of their streams— It was not until spring was onits “When I get baby to sleep Ym {ad 2ow inany came rm freien era on modern women. 'is best for the crops which follow
Witle the trees are € in nite way, with its sunshine and per- going to take a nap myself,” said ands’ they miners > | Fall fashions usually TESS and saves extra labor in the spring
And the little broken moon fumed 1 and also with occa- his wife. “I've hardly closed my °F Pro onal men. OF What? Are themselves in terms of street clothes hi
BE ? sional high winds and sudden violent (eyes for three nights. Maybe iti Men} WOAH SICKER. S00 0 UP iin the average woman's ‘mind. _oued paper “wrappers help t
Like Ge ume of 8 Tune rainstorms that Leotie's words Same | You'd Jui Bim ia bis coach, mother, | ENE 5, not.? How about citles| THEY I A Ye ite Senge Of |piovent storage scale of es, an
. | m around a wearing shredded oiled stributec
May I take you to the city, es to Dros. other wi little he'd drop off.” yare |and rural Sires? : such | Autumn coat dress or coat, just a5 tnrouch the i TT ea al
Where ‘Jour heart will break with pity former's vague forebodings ausers. | Altes Sha hea gone Smo leagteors Sanu al Su by Shout Such Spring J, RyHoRgious with Jonny: ‘good. Proper maturity and promp
At the lethargy that seems [ing the dire pehalties visited on room stood doubtfully gaz. ‘Composition and Characteristics of that the next season's street “LoT8Ee at low temperatures
DHl3 hal: uies io ives. cg Wo 17300 Gt rls tho! at the ry or standing» Population.” just issued by the Bu- ;iothes will show an era in fur | > ‘oportant. —
way facts will ‘bind you Back in the sheltered New Eng- little distance from the house, in [Teas ! ne (ous us. | trimming more lavish, luxurious and —By storing vegetables this fal
'land village where rain fell in gen- the cool shade of a great pine tree.
To the fancies of the earth? “It seems so lonesome out there
Out of the 9,631,350 living in the,
tle drizzies and the force of every
, |wind was broken by various obstruc-
: us), take Sou, bat FI ep yve, | tions, they had never known storms
Where no alien winds shall sweep you, Such as were so common in this
In a secret place that gleams vast, open country.
With the light of your own laughter— The sky which appeared nearer
Yours the vessel, ‘and more immense here, was awe-
And we'll brave the storms together,
You—the captain of my heart! farmhouse and its puny occupants.
Its frown completely destroyed the
Helen Whitney in Collier's good woman's morale. So it came
about that her guilty fears culmi-
THE “TWISTER” ‘nated in one secret dread of that
mysterious air monster, the tornado.
“Mother, I've told you time and The time came when she never went
again that we've never hada ‘twist- to bed without a careful scanning of
er’ in this place,” Dan Rushton smil- the heavens, nor slept a night with-
ed down on his mother's anxious out getting up to peer a prehensive-
face. ly out of her western ow.
“But that's not saying that we ~ She began to see the hand of pur-
never shall. Leotie says— suing Nemesis in every squall that
Her tall son brought his hand threatened. When a burst of thun-
down vigorously on the table. der shook the skies or great drops
“Leotie!” he exploded, “to hear of rain or hail began to bombard
her talk, one would think we hada the windows, she shrank in the
tornado out here every week. Can't’ most sheltered corner with a prayer
you see that all she wants is to get on her lips.
you back east to slave yourself to Had she dared to acknowledge
death for those spoiled youngsters of her terror she would have insisted
hers?” on taking everyone to the cellar as
After this usual outburst Dan the safest place to meet the peril
went good-humoredly out to work, she dreaded. She suddered at the
leaving his mother still trying to unconcern of the others, who sat
read the significance of the omin- casually on the porch or otherwise
ous cloud bank forming in the west. exposed themselves. Afterwards
Behind her Dan's young wife when the destruction failed to ma-
sang as she rocked Dan Junior. The terialize, she was fervently thankful
baby's grand-mother marveled that that she had been able to keep from
anyone could be indifferent with betraying the full extent of her
such a menace boiling up on the weakness.
horizon. In the face of such cool- In time she picked up consider-
ness she was constrained to hide able information about the dreaded
her own anxiety. cyclone. When she heard a conver-
Mrs. Rushton could not under- sation begin. “When we had that
stand herself. It baffled her that cyclone down in'—she invariably
she who as a sturdy young widow drew nearer. She learned the hours
had battled alone and fearlessly in of the day when wind storms were
bringing up her family, should have most likely to arrive. She tried to
come here to find herself a prey to picture the funnel-shaped cloud that
unreasoning fears that would not marked them.
down. She searched the papers for ac-
Her first weeks at Midvale Farm counts of tornadoes elsewhere, and
had been filled with sheer delight. when she found one drank in the
The modern little home, with meager details with an almost mor-
and his mild, quiet-voiced wife and bid thirst. Later she located the
one cherub of a baby, had seemed a stricken places on the map. So
fair haven after the continual tur- each cyclone carialty that summer
moil in her daughter's house. It had an unknown but sympathetic
had been pleasant, for a while, to mourner in the grand-mother at
sit idly watching Rita's deft hands Midvale Farm.
do the work. What comfort was it to her to be
But although she was forced to told that the genuine death.breath-
admit that she had never been so ing tornado is rare, its swathe com-
happily situated, the idea of forced paratively narrow, and the district
idleness did not appeal to Mrs. in which they lived considered im-
Rushton. The knitting and the mune from its ravages. Her fears
tatting she had always longed todo, would not be reasoned away. If,
even the pastime of watching baby as Leotie seemed to predict, there
began to pall. (was a judgment in store for her,
“I never expected to find myself what could reaso avail ?
merely sitting around and doing Dan began to fear that his moth-
nothing,” she protested at last. er was homesick. “As soon as the
“I'm not cut out for it.” roads dry up we'll get the car out
“Well, you'll have to get used to and give you a real look at thie
it,” the young people had declared. country,” he promised.
‘You have done more than your But keenly as she looked for-
share of the work already.” ward to these excursions, the edge
Life at Leotie’s, with an expectant of her enjoyment could be dulled by
brood of six to be waited on, had the least threat of bad weather. If
certainly been strenuous, but when she must die she preferred to die
had her life been anything else? indoors.
Her own babies, scatterd now, had Gradually, as the long, bright
scarcely been off her hands before summer days stole on, she
Leotie’s had come to assert their almost unconsciously, to recover her
claim, and they had been asserting poise
it lustily ever since.
. The weather became more
settled. Although she did not trust
for him. Of course he's safe h.
Nothing can get into him and he
can't get out of the coach. His
mother said she could hear him
from the window.”
She finally decided to throw her-
‘some enough when it smiled on the Self down in the hammock on the,
| porch, meaning to keep the precious
sleeper in sight. But the y was
! breathlessly hot, and her nights, too,
‘had been disturbed. The song of
the wren in the pine trees, the con-
tented chirping from the chicken
coops, and the droning of the in-
sects, soon became a jumble of
confused sound, and without mean-
ing to, she fell "
She awoke to find a sharp breeze
stirring the vines above her head.
And the sky, so cloudless a few
minutes before—or was it hours—
had grown dark and threatening.
More from habit than from any
conscious plan, she went through
the house to the west window,
which was her lookout. An inky
black curtain, with edges,
was slowly closing over that part of
the horizon within her range. The
branches of the tall trees behind the
house had begun to lash one anoth-
er violently. The tasseled corn-
tops in the near-by field swayed
like creamy surf on a cast, green
sea. Suddenly a few big drops
broke against the screen and splash-
ed on the sill. Then she remem-
‘bered the baby. Was he still out-
| side alone?
A vivid flash starteld her, fol-
lowed by a succession of sharp
that rattled the windows. Ordi-
narily such conditions would have
deprived the old lady of all power
of motion, but now she slammed
back the window and made for the
door. She had not a shadow of
doubt that the long expected tor-
nado had come, and here she was
facing it alone. It would take time
to wake Rita. Heedless of the
bl fury about her, she rushed
Bina straight across to the big
pine tree. Snatching the drowsy
baby from his warm nest, she
stumbled back.
Her daughter-in-law, who had
sprung up with a re-
membrance of the baby, met her
as, drenched and panting, she reach-
ed the door. As it slammed after
her, a new, rushing noise above the
din, and a formidable jar shook the
house. The gloom had increased.
The windows, blurred with wavy
rivulets, failed to admit what light
there was. Rita, completely un-
nerved for once, drew her mother-
in-law down beside her and held
out her hand mechanically for the
baby. Mrs. Rushton k her
head
“What can we do? Shall we go
down to the baseemnt? We can't
stay here!” moaned the younger
woman, in the first short lull.
Mrs. Rushton, with amazing calm-
ness, alternately soothed mother and
‘baby. “There, there!” she com-
'forted both, “I have an idea the
worst will soon be over.
The uproar had quieted, though it
‘had not altogether ceased, when
Dan, dripping and breathless, burst
‘among them 12.8 per cent who were
not born in this country.
‘makes the State 82.6 per cent na-
tive white. More than two-thirds
of these were born of native par-
ents. Naturalization has made citi-
zens out of 62 per cent of the for-
eign-born white, whose number in
the State is 1,223.05].
As to learning, if literacy may be
so called:
| literacy is decreasing. The per-
centage of those of 10 years of age
and over who cannot read has les-
sened since 1920, the last census
time, from 4.6 to 3.1.
Concerning working women: In
the State, 806,755 of the 4,785,833 fe-
males were wo women. In
other words, 16.9 per cent of the
females have a gainful occupation.
Among males, 60.2 per cent of the
4,845,517 in the State have jobs, or
at least some occupation by which
they get money. It must be re-
membered that the other 40 per
cent, approximately, does not in-
dicate that much unemployment, by
any means, for boys under working |
age, men too old to work and a
number of other classes are includ-
ed in the total number of males.
The number of babies (under 1
year of age) decreased 14.5 per cent
since the last census. The entire
group of children under 5 years of |
age showed a decrease of 10.9 per
' cent.
The city versus the farm:
The percentage of the population
living in cities is now 67.8.
Census Bureau, as a general rule,
counts as urban population those
living in cities of 2,500 or more
population.) A new rule has add-
ed a number of townships to what
is called the urban group, but this
urban pecpulation represents an in-
| crease of 6.3 per cent over the num.
ber of city dwellers in 1920. Some
3,097,839 persons live outside of the
cities, while 6,533,511 are classified
‘as city e.
The population of the State as a
whole increased 911,333, or 10 per
cent, between 1920 and 1930.
Now as to the worker and how
they are employed. y are indi-
(cated as follows:
culture. ...........o. ni. 251,443
sstsiatrursiessrsansenrnsivanesse 327,476
Manufacturing ...................... 1,469,468
Transportation ..................... 359,695
THEAE ............cneenerrieieace 562,940
Domestic ........oineenneem.. 322,245
Professional ...................- 247,293
Parenthetically, it might be said
that among the miners, ,604, are
[thie con VivSioh Ua a
ufacturing is composed mostly
, iron, steel, clothing and
textile industries in this State.
OPEN SEASON ON DOE
NAMED FOR ENTIRE STATE
An open season for the of
female deer in Pennsylvania this
| year concurrent with the
‘open season on male deer from De-
(cember 1 to December 15, was de-
jclared in a resolutio by the state
, board of game commissioners.
State, 95.4 per cent are white,
That |
(The |
| —
—French fashions for the younger
fry seem to fight shy of the roman-
tic Edwardian epoch, bustles, ruffles
and what-not, and are all for allow-
ing youth all kinds of freedom for
the modern life of to-day.
i
Some of the French designers are
‘showing some lovely new box-coats
of fur with tailored collars and
revers, big pockets and wide woolly
scarves in bright colors. They'll
be extremely smart at the foot-
ball games this autumn. turia
white caracul and poney furs arc
used in general.
Coats of wool or tricot
are fitted slightly at the waist and
flaring below, having curved crossed
scarves of fur or velvet.
Schia; i makes a striking
rt with the coat ir
‘rough, ribbed blue woolen with fit-
ted-in waist, crossing at the waist-
/line and closing double-breasted ef-
fect. The simple frock which
| comes under it is in dull white silk
' jersey with a ribbed weave.
Another suit is of open-striped
jersey in lovliest green. The pack-
et is fitted and has neither collar
nor revers. The one-piece dress
has a blouse of stripes made by
fagotting and the skirt is slightly
flared below the hip-line.
Lovely lacey sweater blouses come
for wear with youthful jacket cos-
tumes. They are short-sleeved and
reach tc a few inches below the
waistline.
A bright red jersey, very heavy,
‘makes a charmingly youthful coat
to wear over a dress of black jer-
sey, the lower sleeves being in red.
—To assume more intelligence,
education, elegance than one really
‘has is almost always vulgar. And
nothing is so easy of detection. To
assume more intelligence, education,
elegance, than one really has, to pre-
tend to live better than one does, to
claim intimate acquaintance with
people not as intimate with one as
one wishes they were—such false-
nesses are soon found out, and the
‘judgment formed of the
| practicing them is never flattering.
On the other hand, there is a re-
straint, a self control to be recom:
| mended which holds in check the
| opposite extreme of too great frank-
, ness. One should not force his
ideas or opinions upon those who
are unlikely to be interested. Too
much zeal, undue vehemence, ram-
pant argument, are all out of place
in social rings.
‘hall marks of good manners is that
! the possessors of them do not make
others uncomfortable and resort to
Violent discussions or laying down of
e law.
—Gradually tasks of house-
keeping have left the home, and, in
two or three years more of them
will be performed by commercial
agencies, outside the home, as spin.
ning, knitting, bread baking and
d are today.
In spite of the fact that so many
parts of homekeeping have left the
persons |
One of the to it.
perature, good ventilation, size o
bins, racks, good drainage, cleanli
‘ness, ease of access to the storage
‘and the condition of the crops stor
ed.
—-In order to lay well a hen mus
have comfortable quarters. Hen
may live and lay some eggs eve
when kept in a poorly constructe:
house, but a flock kept in a goo
house and given proper care i
much more likely to be profitable.
~—Every dairy farm should have:
bull pen. Ease and safety in hand
ling are thus assured and the healt
i vigor of the bull are benefited.
—Efficient management of me
and money contributes tn the suc
(cess of farmers’ cooperative organ
(izations, a State College survey re
vealed. Satisfactory service an
high quality products should be em
phasized
The best time to transplant conf
fers is in the fall, according to
Pennsylvania nursery.
—Health and vigor of the stoc
are the foundation of success in th
| poultry business.
—Bermuda onions grown in Flo
ida this year were equal in qualit
'to those grown on the island of th
same name.
—A young queen and young bee
in a hive in the fall are good insu
ance against weak, unproductiv
colonies next spring.
—The time to sell the unprofitabj
cow is when she is found to be ur
profitable; and she should be sol
/to the butcher.
—A pure bred large white so
owned in Lincolnshire, England, i
giving birth recently to 21 pigs hs
completed the rasing of 50 pigs i
her last three litters.
~—~Swine need some salt,, but n«
very much. Two-fifths of a pour
‘of salt well mixed with each 1(
pounds of grain mixture is enoug
The feeding of too much salt whe
pigs are not accustomed to it wi
be fatal. Salt may be mixed wit
wood ashes or with coal slack, abot
one part to 20. After pigs har
been hand.fed this mixture for
time they may be given free acce:
Salt may also be fed wit
finely ground limestone and stean
ed bone meal, limestone, 45 part
and salt, 10 parts.
—If you are ranging on land th:
is to be used for a ne:
year, be careful about feedix
screenings or wheat that has n
‘been cleaned. will briz
in a remarkable collection of wee:
which greatly increase the work
raising a good garden. If scree
|ings are fed to poultry it is pro
ably best to feed the grain
troughs and then burn any smu
seeds that the chickens will not et
t
‘into the kitchen. His wife clutch- In taking this action the board home and so many women are em-
At first the idea of deserting them, them, the broad blue heavens were
of leaving Leotie to manage her not so constantly menacing. She
own house and family alone, had never tired of watching the changes
seemed preposterous. Dan, who had in the rolling fields. The
come East on his first visit in years, ity of the long rows of machine-
saw things differently. He stood planted corn fascinated her and she
firm in his purpose to take his marveled at the rapid growth of the
mother back with him. slender shoots into quivering green
“But you do not know how busy blades.
Leotie is with outside things. She Perhaps the stimulus of a well-or-
is always writing papers for her dered household, together with the
club or doing settlement work or long hours on shady porch, were do-
speaking at some of the guilds,” the ing their part to foster an inner
mother had reasoned. “I know I Sense of calm and security. At any
didn’t help much but Leotie cer- rate, Mrs. Rushton began to believe
tainly needs someone to look after that her prayers for an increase of
ed his soggy sleeve.
“O Dan,” she half sobbed, “where
were ”
He looked round at them all.
When he spoke, his voice held an
awed note. “I stopped down the
‘road, here, in Patton's barn,” he
‘said. Looks like a little cyclone had
‘gone through here. I see the corn-
crib and garage are both down, and
the big pine out there has"
Rita interrupted with a frighten:
(ed gasp.
“Did you konw the boy's
was left out under that tree? It's
of game commissioners Nay the
| power given by the recent Legisla-
‘ture 1a amended the game code
‘by permitting the commissioners to
‘declare open seasons on female deer
in the entire State or in a portion
‘of the State concurrent with the
‘regular season for male deer and
(with the same bag limits.
During the coming deer season
each hunter will be permitted to
| kill one deer, male or female, and
leach camp will be limited to six
! deer, regardless of sex. The reso-
‘lution also provides that no antler-
the children when she can't be with faith were being answered. ‘crushed as flat as”—He took a stride ewe ar Shall pe OE Which
them.’ She might even have succeeded in toward the baby and buried his op. Ro ed.
“Now mother,” Dan had cut in, throwing off the ever-present bur- (face in the folds of the child's dress. last in P 1
“you don't want to worry over Leo- den of Leotie's family cares if she “I tell you it took some out ot | he Aopen Sean i enusy)*
tie's children not getting all that's had been permitted to help ever so me to go over there and look init,” vaula oF th killing male ser
coming to them.” He chuckled at little in Dan's home. But Dan was he said hoarsely, as he raised his was nx , although *® y
the recollection of clamorous meal- firm; he was convinced that garden head. | there fo Y Pec To pea
time scenes in his sister's home. Work was too heavy for her, al-| He stood up, wiping his forehead. | season on tn oC LT
“Yes sir, those youngsters will nev- though she did contrive on the slip “Were you frightened?” he asked. deer season certain
er get left; it isn't in them to per- to pull a few weeds now and then. He turned with surprise from the |
mit it. I hope your being away She longed to help in the shining white and shaken Rita, to his moth- DRIVE ON ILLEGAL
will make Leotie stay home for a kitchen, but there was allowed only er, to prepare the baby's SIGNS NETS 36,907
change. “sitting down jobs,” as she termed food. “Were you frightened, moth. | rns lind
So, against her better judgment them scornfully. Even the baby er?” he questioned again. | State highways and adjoining .
and to her daughter's consternation, Was too well trained to need much |
the little grand-mother found her. care. When his grand-mother was stove, the baby deftly turned un- |
self packed up and hustled off to allowed to hold him, as a spec'al der her left arm. There was a tran- |
what seemed to her untraveled mind concession, she knew that it was «t qui light, a sort of ecstacy on her |
|
the Pennsylvania Department of
Highways, who pulleg ig Rm
v far west. And it was inevit- the risk of spoiling the boy. Once, face. tattered leg a y-day
bo that she should have periodsof When he was recovering after a “Frightened?” she repeated al- campaign, Secretary of Highway:
remorseful wondering about the quite serious illness, she guiltily | most absently. “A little,” she an- Samuel S. Lewis announced. The
grand-children she had deserted; welcomed the chance to keep the sSwered. “Rita was some upset, {1931 drive netted nearly 5,000 more
whether Leotie got them off to fretful little fellow on her lap while too. It took her so sudden, you signs than had been pulled down in
school in time, who mended Joe's his mother caught up with her see. But I was all right when I | the 1930 drive, Lewis said.
torn stockings and who saw that work. | knew baby was safe.” | Instructed by Secretary Lewis, the
thin, petulant little Allie drank the “I wonder why it is,” she said to She could not expect these others Department's maintenance crews
milk she needed. It was but nat- Dan that day at dinner time, “that to understand her new freedom. scouted each section of roadway.
ural that, not recovered in mind this baby seems sweeter than any They could not know that it was Every type of illegal sign was re-
and body from the strain of life Of Leotie's ever were? Yet, I was now plain to her why she had been moved and prominent among of-
back there her thoughts shouid turn fond enough of them, too.” | mysteriously led to leave Leotie and fenders were numerous imitations of
to Leotie's final warnings about the “I guess maybe it's because you come here; that an all-wise Provi- | official markings, such as “slow
cyclone menace. ‘have more time to enjoy this little dence had known all along that down” and “stop”, popular with
Leotie knew her mother, the un- fellow.” Dan reached down to someone else's baby would have owners of stands.
compromising New England con- tweak a bare, pink toe; “I never need of her. The dreaded Nemesis | Several truckloads of cards, boards,
science and it was to these that Saw you still long enough to enjoy had come—and spared her. She | cloth and metal legends were re-
she made her last appeal. (anything at Leotie’s.” Dan could would never fear it again. | moved from trees and poles along
“I should think mother would be not think of his mother’s life at his| She laid her grandson in his crib the right-of-way. Employees asked
afraid to fly in the face of Provi- Sister's without a hot wave of in- and began to busy herself about sup- permission of adjacent property own-
dence that way,” she would remark |dignation sweeping over him. It per. Rita came silently to help, ers to remove all signs not covered
in her mother's hearing, “to ex- gave him increasing satisfaction to her eyes following her mother-in.law | by leases or on which the
change a safe, comfortable home for | See her getting the rest she
a buried existence on a farm in the | served. change. | were not disturbed.
ployed outside, housekeeping em-
~ploys more people than other occu-
pation.
It is true that the homekeeper of
today does not have nearly so many
tasks to perform as her oth-
er did. But, as the work has left
the home, so have the workers. The
aunts, daughters, grandmothers, and
even the “hired girls” have aban-
doned housework. Most of it falls
now on “the housewife,” whe is
probably as busy as ever, since her
former help is engaged outside the
‘home and demands her services asa
background. is still
(a full-time job—public opinion to
the contrary-—and the housekeeper
'is still the
t re on the oc-
cupational h Bge
—G rbread Date Dessert—This
is excellent either as a cake or a
pudding. If you serve it as a pud-
ding, make a hard sauce for it or
serve it with slightly sweetened
| whipped cream, flavored with a lit-
'tle of juice.
| One-third % cu
cup shortening,
[brown sugar, '% cup sweetened,
Housekeeping
Mrs. Rushton turned from the scape were swept clear of illegal ad- | strained apple sauce, % cup sour |
| vertising by maintenance forces of milk or buttermilk, '%4 cup molas- ind
‘ses, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking
soda, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon,
1; teaspoon ground nutmeg, 4%
teaspoon salt, 1 cup chopped dates.
Combine the ingredients in the or-
der given, creaming the sugar well
with the shortening before adding
the apple sauce, and so on. When
| you come to the flour, mix it thor-
oughly with the soda, cinnamon,
| nutmeg and salt before combining
|it with the batter.
| —Put in envelopes and label the
|odd keys from trunks and suitcases
| and other locks about the household,
and you will not lose them nor have
difficulty in telling which belong to
| which.
—To preserve and brighten the
use in the
n of salt to
| colors in wash dresses,
| wash water a tablespoo
| rinse water.
. —Fertilizing the hay crop wi
! sulphate of ammonia on t
farm of John Henderson in Belmo
icounty who secured an increase
‘one and one-half tons of hay fro
(an expenditure of $3 for the ferti
‘zer applied as a top dressing, a
cording to estimates. Part of t
‘field received no fertilizer and he
‘the timothy yielded only 1,500 poun
‘per acre, while on the fertilized pc
tion the yield was almost two a
‘one-half tons to the acre.—O}
| Farmer.
~The Washington experiment st
‘tion has been conducting expe
ments on the relation of leaf ar
‘to fruit. It was found that twe
ty to thirty leaves ror each fn
are necessary to produce an apj
of commercial size under conditic
in Washington State, and that for
to fifty leaves per fruit are needed
{fruit buds are wanted for the ne
|season’s crop. The maintenance
|a vigorous growth of tree by an avs
‘able amount of organic iaatter, a
| sufficient moisture will maintain
e leaf area. There have be
tions that in the East mo
ture is most commonly the ch
| limiting factor of these three I:
items. It is estimated that
average twenty to twenty-five-ye:
‘old apple tree will sixty
(one hundred thousand leaves, whi
| means that the crop on such a ti
should be limited to one thousa:
five hundred to two thousand, f
hundred fruits, if best commerc
size and quality as well as anm
| crops are to be obtained.
—Experiments at the Pennsyl
nia State college show that it
quires considerably more feed
produce gains on lousy hogs tr
lon swine free from lice. Cro
ithe hogs in a small shed =
|sprinkle crude oil or cranks;
|drainings on them with a sprinklL
| can or with an old broom dipped
| the oil. Leave the pigs in the }
leases | each quart of water, and add vine- until they have rubbed against ei
de- with a wondering respect. —Ex- had expired. Legally erected signs gar in the same proportion to the other and their bodies are cove
| with the oil.